THE Water’s Edge Hotel in Bouley Bay will shut its doors for guests at the end of the year.
The hotel part of the site is no longer making money so, the owners, who include Robert Behan, have decided to close down. However, they will continue to run the six self-catering flats further up the road, the Black Dog bar and restaurant, and functions in the main hotel, the Dive Centre and the Woodcarvers shop.
Mr Behan said: ‘We are not renewing the seasonal staff for 2009. The three staff that we usually keep on over the winter we are not keeping. We are not intending to operate residential rooms in 2009. It is not profitable.
We are keeping the profitable elements of the business and we are not operating the non-profitable parts.’
It is believed that there are plans to turn the three-star hotel into flats but Mr Behan would not comment on this. The hotel site has a long history and could date back as far as the 18th century.
